In the News:

With the twentieth century comes a disaster for the attack dogs in Spain. The mixingwith other races like the mastiff boxer and led the Spanish Alano is considered totallyextinct. (Same happened with the Presa Canario).

But that's not entirely true. They have kept hounds in Cantabria, on the western edgeof Biscay (Valle de Carranza), and in the adjacent Valle de Llera (Burgos). Thesedogs cattle management.

In 1980 a group of cynologists proposed recovery of the breed. After combing Spain in search of useful examples, create a breeding base that soon gave optimal results.Today we can say that thanks to his work the Spanish Alano is a reality.

Homogeneity has been achieved in type and temperament, as conditions essential to assert that a race is established.


Hunting with Alano:

The Alano is a dog of great courage and powerful prey. The system is to hunt wild boar hunting round, is hunting boar one night with the help of a horse, dog and a hunting knife. It gets really tested the value of the hunter and the powerful Alano bite.The round begins with the fall of night. The hunters mounted on horseback and withdogs loose, begin a silent march and clear sidewalks in search of wild boars. The Alans are staying close to horses and only venture into the bush when a hound iscalled a boar and stopped.

At that moment the Alanos flock to where the hound that insistently claims itsassistance. The boar usually receives mastiff with his trunk, rejecting sometimes long distances, but the dog bit slow to recover and whether you are uninjured, as if you are injured or half dead, reload. I have seen some return to the load being almost openchannel. Other times, wild boar and Alano, when they met, they stood on their hind legs and feet are undertaken without mercy, trying each one down to his opponent.

Alano proportions:

It should be fairly wide and long and his head a little long, starting about the samemuzzle not too long, lips largely fallen with wide mouth split and black inside, and thatthe jaws grip well short thick . Small eyes, a little sad, to lookfierce but franc. broad chests and shoulders thin, arms straight and short pasterns.Legs straight and collected, so as to open back up front. Lacola medium, the betterthe higher birth. That are higher in back than in front, so they are better runners andbetter defend once grabbed the boar.